Project Executive - Mainspring Energy, Inc.

Company Overview

Mainspring Energy is revolutionizing power generation with the world’s most flexible and adaptable onsite power generator, the Mainspring Linear Generator. Commercial, industrial, and utility leaders are choosing Mainspring over traditional options like engines, turbines, and fuel cells to quickly and reliably deliver local power for EV charging, commercial facilities, data centers, and grid-scale operations. The Mainspring Linear Generator is fuel flexible, ramps up and down to meet demand, and utilizes a flameless technology with near-zero NOx emissions.

Backed by top-tier investors such as Khosla Ventures, Bill Gates, American Electric Power, and Lightrock, Mainspring designs, manufactures and delivers its products to customers across the U.S. today, and we’re quickly scaling for international expansion.

Inspired by our vision of the affordable, reliable, net-zero carbon grid, Mainspring is rapidly expanding within the $816B global electricity equipment market, and we’re hiring the best talent to meet growing customer demand around the globe. We welcome a broad range of backgrounds, experiences, and talents to bring fresh perspectives and ongoing innovation to our customers.

We are looking to build relationships with people who share our values:

• Pragmatic Optimism. Building a new category of world-class power generation requires the optimism of ambition and creativity, balanced with practicality to solve problems efficiently. The challenges that arise are opportunities for growth.

• Excellence without Ego. We bring expertise and commitment to creating the best customer experience, from sales to deployment and service, just as we apply deep technical rigor to building and delivering world-class products. We strive for excellence and behave as leaders with the humility to acknowledge our challenges, both collectively and as individual contributors.

• Proactive Collaboration. The integration and cross-disciplinary nature of Mainspring’s business requires intentionally seeking out others who bring different skills, perspectives, and priorities. Our culture of inclusion and respect extends beyond our team to interactions with our partners and customers.

Mainspring is based in Menlo Park and has partnered with top-tier investors and utilities such as Khosla Ventures, Bill Gates, NextEra, and American Electric Power. More information can be found at www.mainspringenergy.com.

Responsibilities

A key enabler of Mainspring’s mission to bring its scalable, fast-ramping, fuel-flexible capacity to the world is the ability to seamlessly execute the design, permitting, construction, and commissioning of projects. To that end, Mainspring wishes to hire a Project Executive to oversee projects at all stages and sizes, as well as the project teams. This key role will be accountable for (but not be limited to) the following:

• Manage Customer relationships from Pre-Sales through to Commercial Operation.

• Proactive high-level oversight, identifying project challenges across all disciplines (engineering, estimating, controls, communication, constructability, environmental, microgrids, easements, etc.), taking responsibility, relentlessly problem-solving, and driving successful win-win outcomes.

• Lead projects with new use cases, new territories, and product applications.

• Demonstrated experience overseeing project managers and projects from feasibility, start up, development, engineering, construction, commissioning, and COD.

• Instilling a culture of accountability and end-to-end success, and exceeding customer expectations

• RFP writing, bid leveling, Subcontract, Master Services Agreements, Engineering Services Agreement contract and scope negotiations.

• Promote a culture of due diligence, attention to detail, quick to jump in, take responsibility and own the resolution to a successful result.

• Ensure optimal communication and cross department collaboration, as well as with EPC partners and Customers.

• Ability to tackle big pictures issues as well as day-to-day tasks and challenges simultaneously.

• Develop and negotiate partnerships that can further our teams’ ability to execute projects swiftly and at low cost.

• Be responsible for managing, hitting, and progressively declining cost targets for installation process

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience with power generation project management from feasibility to COD

• Microgrid project experience and understanding

• Ability to read, evaluate and comment on all aspects of Civil + MEP plan sets

• Degree in related discipline

• Experience with Project Management software and tools

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

• Demonstrated ability to innovate and refine processes to reduce cost and drive efficiency

• Must work well in virtual and in person environments

• Proficient in Google and Microsoft Office software

• Strong organizational and analytical skills

• Strong planning and organizational skills with high attention to details

• Demonstrated experience solving complex problems on all aspects of a project

• Excels in high output fast-paced environments

The Bay Area salary for this role is $180k-$203k base + bonus + pre-IPO stock options + benefits. This position can be remote or hybrid. The salary will be adjusted to reflect local market conditions based on employee location as well as the experience of the employee.

Does your experience not meet all of our posted requirements? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to positions unless they meet every listed requirement. At Mainspring, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, flexible, and collaborative environment, so if you want to help us transition the world to clean and affordable electricity, and don’t meet all posted requirements for a particular role, we’d still love to hear from you. Mainspring can sometimes be flexible enough to shift responsibilities for the right person, or otherwise identify open or upcoming roles that may better fit your professional background.

In more traditional words, Mainspring Energy, Inc is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

This compensation and benefits information is based on Mainspring Energy's estimate as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future. We generally do not negotiate on salary once we have made an offer. The level of pay within the range will depend on a variety of job-related factors that may include location, relevant prior experience and/or education, or particular skills and expertise. New hires joining the company tend to be paid within the starting base pay range noted above, with opportunities to increase pay over time based on development of additional skills, competencies, and company-specific knowledge.